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ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Gracchus, Jullinus, Natalis, Regulus, Vironius (all of second century) ; in the Guildhall, a Gaulish bowl of form 37 [Cat. 437]. Finds of pottery also made in 1842 [Gent. Mag. (1843), ii, 416]. Dr. Griffith reported a find in 1774 as follows : ' On digging deeper in some parts of the same ground, some fragments of Roman bricks, and a few pieces of the middle brass of Domitian, were thrown up. The bones also of several children, and of five or six full-grown persons, were discovered' [Jrch. iv, 362 ; Malcolm, Land. Rediv. iii, 518]. St. Mary Axe (Plan C, 49). — Tessellated pavement found in 1849 while digging for sewers at the corner of Bevis Marks ; since destroyed [Joia-n. Brit. Arch. Assoc, v, 90]. In Mr. Ransom's collection at Hitchin is a curious stone terminal figure (about 3 ft. high) of a barbarian, wearing a cuirass, on an ornamented plinth (Fig. 53) ; it stands in the garden, and has sufi^ered from exposure. St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside (Plan C, 176). — 'The parochial church oi St. Mary le Bow in Cheap- side, requir'd to be rebuilt after the Great Fire : — Upon opening the Ground, a Foundation was discern'd firm enough for the new intended Fabrick, which (on further Inspection, after digging down sufficiently and removing what Earth or Rubbish lay in the Way) appear'd to be the Walls, with the Windows also, and the Pavement of a Temple, or Church, of Roman Workmanship, intirely bury'd under the Level of the present Street ... he sunk about 18 Feet deep through made-ground, and then imagin'd he was come to the natural Soil and hard Gravel, but upon full examination, it appear'd to be a Roman Causeway of rough Stone, close and well rammed, with Roman Brick and Rubbish at the Bottom, for a Foundation, and all firmly cemented. This Causeway was four feet thick ... He then concluded to lay the Foundation of the Tower upon the very Roman Causeway, as most proper to bear what he had design'd, a weighty and lofty structure ' [Wren, Parentalia, 265]. St. Mary Woolnoth (Plan C, 86). — '■Anno 17 16, in digging for the Foundation of a new Church, to be erected where the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard Street stood, at the Depth of about 15 Foot, and so lower to 22 Foot were found Roman vessels, both for sacred and Domestic Uses, of all Sorts, and in great Abundance, but all broken. And with all were taken up Tusks and Bones of Boars and Goats. As also many Meddals, and Pieces of Metals, some tesselated Works, a Piece of an Aqueduct, and at the very Bottom a Well filled up with Mire and Dirt' [Stow, Survey (ed. Strype), ii, App. v. 24 ; Allen, Hist, of Lond. i, 25 ; Hughson, Hist, of Lond. i, 34 ; cf. Brayley, Beauties of England and [Vales, x, pt. I, 91]. From these discoveries the ingenious Dr. Harwood, having been ' very exact in taking notice ' deduced the existence, not only of a pottery, but also of the Temple of Concord ! The potsherds were used to mend roads in Southwark. A fragment of a patera with inscription exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries in 1 724, and lamps in 1731, 1740 [MS. Min. i, 64, 267 ; iii, 268]. Clay lamp with stamp attvsaf from Roach Smith's collection in Brit. Mus. (Fig. 54a) [Coll. Antiq. i, 166 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1330, 5]. In the Guildhall, pottery found in making the Bank station of the City and South London Railway : two Gaulish bowls stamped sa • ap • F, Sa{lari"s) A{rvernus) f[ecit), and OF c • N • ge, Of{ficina) C{i)n{tu)ge[ni), and three amphora-handles stamped c • F • a • v, M • patrv and satvrni [Cat. 16-18, 309, 510, 591]. St. Michael Bassishaw. — When this church was pulled down in 1898-9 there were found under it, ' resting on the original soil,' a few fragments of Roman pottery [Arch. Iviii, 204]. Also a Roman capital in Guildhall Museum [Cat. 1 5] from this site. St. Michael Crooked Lane (Plan C, 71). — On the site of this church, pulled down in 1831, three lines of embankment were traced at a depth of 20 ft., composed of wooden piles and trunks of trees, forming in fact a kind of campsheathing [Gent. Mag. (1831), i, 387]. About the same time, coins of Nero, Vespasian, and Nerva were found [Ibid. (1832), ii, S^^]- It is maintained that on the City side of London Bridge no coins later than Trajan were found, but this is hardly borne out by other finds. Pottery of various kinds was also reported from this site, together with part of a plain red tessellated pavement^" and architectural fragments, '" Apparently identical with one now in the Guildhall Mus. {Cat. 6). 123 Fig. 541?. — Lamp from St. Mary Woolnoth (f)